Shower-bath



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SHOWER-BATH.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 596,115, dated December 28, 189'?.

Application nea Ap'rii 21, 1897.

To all whom tmay concern:

- Beit known that I, EMIL .IENDVIS, a citizen of the United States, residing at Chicago, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, have. invented certain new and useful Improvements in Shower-Baths, which are fully set forth in the following specification, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part thereof, and in which- Figure l shows my said device in elevation as seen from one of the side openings with some of the pipes broken away and case, Hoor, and walls in section and valve and connections inside view. Fig. 2 shows the valve and its connections from the under side. Fig. 3A shows the sprinkler-pipes. as seen from the plane 3 3, cutting Fig. l, as shown. Portions only of the pipes are shown. Fig. 4 shows the sprinkler-pipes as seen from the cuttingplane 44 of Fig. l, together with the feed-pipes c and the pan or case in section with its discharge-pipe. Fig. 5 shows a sectional view of the shell of the valve or valve-casing, its supply-pipe, dial, operating-lever, and its bracket and part of the shaft, and the valve and the remainder of its shaft and the valveopenings in perspective. Fig. 6 showsa section of the valve and its casing on the plane 6 6 of Fig. 5. Fig. 7 shows a sectional view of the operating-leven'the toothed wheel operating with the lever, and spring-bolt stops, taken on a cutting-plane '7 7 of Fig. 5. Fig. 8 shows an end view of the wall-bracket h.

Like letters of reference denote like parts. The object of my invention is to produce a shower-bath wherein showers or sprays are produced from vertical pipes from different directions and also different regulable heights, whereby the action of the shower or showers may be made specially local to the person or in the same construction adapted to persons of different heights' and, again, so arranged that .the shower may come from the front or the rear, or from both directions at the same time, or from thefour corners alone, or from the top alone, or from all said places simultaneously by means of a single valve provided with a series of special openings connected with discharge-pipes operated, adjusted, and indexed by a single operating-lever and other mechanism connected with said parts, consein No. 633,077. er model.)

Between walls a, preferably portable, forming front and rear sides of a small chamber., are erected a series of vertical sprinklingpipes which stand in a box b. Said pipes are provided with small holes j" from the bottom up to the necessary height for a tall person, and on each j et-pipe is placed a sleevef8,which holds by friction, for' the purpose of cutting off such parts of the shower as are not wanted,

as at the top or from the middle or lower part of the person and for short persons and children. Within the front one of said walls are placed the corner-pipes f5, and about equally spaced between said corner-pipes are two pipes f6, and between said latter pipes are two supply-pipes c, each provided with a cock j, above which said pipes unite into one which is coupled to the center of one end of a cylindrical shell d, provided with an internal cylindrical shell with a series of ports c e e2 e3 e@f e5, which discharge through several sets of openings e7 f4 in the bottom of the shell d into pipes which feed the ksprinkler or jet pipes, of which certain special sprinkling-pipes are connected with certain openings in the valve e.

In my preferred construction or arrangement the front corner-pipes f5 and rear corner-pipes f5 are connected through the pipes f with` the twin valve-openings e', which extend half-way around the shell. The intermediate pipes f of the front-wall set are connected through the connectingpipes f2 with the valve-openings e2, and the intermediate pipes f7 of the rear wall are connected through the pipes f3 with the valveport e3. A part of the pipes f3 are shown in the sectional view Fig. 6. where said opening f3 is shown in full length. The beginning of each of the slotted openings e e2 e3 is on the same straight line parallel with the axis of the cylinder and each placed over its pipe-openings c7, as shown in Fig. 6. The round hole e5 fits over its discharge opening and pipe f4 when said three slotted ports are fully open and placed as shown in Figs. 5 and 6. The round hole c4 is placed so as to let the valve discharge through the pipe f4, with its rose-sprinkler es," when the next full stop motion is made of the valve e from the position in which it is now shown in Figs-5 and 6. In its present position all the valvestructed substantially as follows, namely: 1 ports discharge through all the shell-ports e7.

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In Fig. G the witness-marks to the referenceletters indicate the farther part of the porti7 or that end which leads when the valve is revolved in the direction indicated by the arrow.

The valve-shell has a cap d', which covers the end through whichthe valve e is inserted into its shell, and through the center of said cap and its stuffing-box passes the valve-stern e, which is extended into a wall-bracket h, on which there is a projecting part to hold a spring-bolt g2. (Shown in Figs. 5 and 7 and in front end view in Fig. S.) The end of the valve-stein or shaft is carried in the round hole shown in Fig. S, and on the saidshaft, next to the bracket, is a wheel g4,with notches g5, keyed to the shaft, and next to said wheel is a circular shell or cap surrounding said wheel and carrying a spring-actuated bolt g', which is also adapted to fit into said notches g5. There is a long lever-handle g to said shell, which is loose on the shaft e0, and in front of the hub of said cap is a dial i, with the first seven Arabic numerals of which that number which is on the lowest part of the dial indicates the position of the valve. As indicated in Fig. 3, the port e3 is open. From said dial may therefore be known what parts of the valve are open, a fact always necessary to know if one wishes to get a desired stream or streams of water. the valve is shown in the drawings all the streams are fully open. One full motion of the lever g will now shut oif all the streams and the next full stop will open the port e4 into f*1 only, and another full motion of said lever will shut off said flow, and the next niotion after said stop will open the portse, which will iiow water through the pipes f' into all thecoruer-pipes f5. Another motion of the `lever will open the port e2 and flow the pipes Ff, and another full motion of the lever will open the port c3 and iiow the pipes f3 f7, all the preceding ports lettered e heilig also open, after which another operation of the valve-lever g will also open the port e5 through f4 and its rose-sprinkler e, which is again the condition of the valve e, as shown in the drawings, as the bolt g2 is placed vertically over the shaft e0, and since the lever g moves in equal angles to each side of the perpendicular an intermediate set'of notches g5 is necessary for the bolt g2, of which the ofiice is to prevent any retrograde movement of the valve e and also to cause the valve to take its proper place for each lever motion, said bolts g' g2 and their notches being so shaped as to yield automatically to the rotation of the wheel when in the right direction, but to hold it against any reverse motion. There is a thin partition j" between the two double sets of pipe-openings in the shell d. Therefore, as shown, jets may be thrown from thc four corner-pipes, to which maybe In the position in which i added the front intermediate, then the rear intermediate, and i'nallythe overhead flow, which are all cut olf at one motion of the lever, after which another motion of the lever again reiustates said last or overhead flow alone, which may again be stopped, after wliichthe corner-jets may be started'and operated alone and a new revolution of the valve has begun which when completed will produce the above-described effects. A curtain k closes the opposite wall-less openings or sides and keeps the falling water within the basin.

As the feed-pipes, hot and cold, unite above the cocksjl into one entrance-pipe c into the interior of the valve e, the water becomes thoroughly tempered to the desired degree,

which is easily and perfectly regulable by means of said cocks. y

All the sprinkling-tubes direct their jets toward the axial center of the chamber, and the overhead rose-jet is axially on the axis of the chamber. Taste-pipes d2 discharge the water from diagonally opposite corners of the What I claim is l. The combination with aseries of vertical jet-pipes, and supply-pipes, united into one valve-supplying pipe,; of a valve-casing .with cylindrical valve, and a series of transverse valve-ports of graded lengths whereof one end of each slotted port is in a line parallel with the valve-axis, and shell-openings for said ports, a valve-stem with a notched operating-wheel, and operating-lever with springbolt to saidwheel, substantially as specified. 2. The combination with a series of Vertical jet-pipes and supply-pipes, united into one valve-supplying pipe, of a valve-casing and.

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cylindrical valve therein, with round and slot-formed ports of graded lengths `having l one end on a line parallel with the valve-axis, and double shell-openings connecting to said jet-pipes, and mechanism to rotate said valve,

EMIL .IENDISJ Vitnesses: i

J. T. WAINWRIGHT, WM. ZIMMERMAN.

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